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openedx / schoolyourself-xblock

An XBlock for displaying School Yourself lessons on the edX platform.
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schoolyourself-xblock

This repository contains XBlocks for displaying School Yourself (SY) content on the edX platform. These will be used in the upcoming AlgebraX and GeometryX courses, developed for the High School Initiative.

There are two similar XBlocks in this repository: schoolyourself_lesson and schoolyourself_review. They both display an icon and some text, which the user clicks on to open a modal dialog, which shows the actual lesson (or assessment) in an iframe. In both cases, the user's anonymous user ID is passed as a URL parameter, along with a signature. The key used to generate the signature is provided by the content author (in this case, SY).

The following screenshot shows an example of a schoolyourself_lesson XBlock and a schoolyourself_review XBlock:

SY XBlock screenshot

If a user clicks on the lesson or review, they will see the following modal:

SY lesson screenshot

The review XBlocks participate in the course grade. The SY server sends back information (via postMessage()) about mastery of various topics as they proceed through a review, and some of that information is used to update the user's grade on edX. This data is also signed, with the same shared key mentioned above.